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From: Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net>
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Subject: Re: Interview Question (your Sunday ruined part 2)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:48:15 -0000 (UTC)
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Pimpom <Pimpom@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 21-10-2024 09:21 pm, john larkin wrote:
>> 
>> We follow SI rules in engineering, but in everyday life the quirky old
>> stuff is sort of fun. We measure distances in blocks or football
>> fields and fluid volume in olympic-size swimming pools, or sometimes
>> acre-feet.
>> 
>> 
> You use your states as units too. I wonder how many Americans actually 
> know how big "half the size of Oregon" is. :)
> 

Bigger than a bread box, for sure. ;)

Cheers 

Phil Hobbs 

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